Bonnie, Thanks again. As I mentioned yesterday, removing 'nspluginwrapper' fixed the problem. Interesting, however, is that with my x86_64 SL 5.5 only the i386 flash-plugin is installed and available via YUM. In the spirit of 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it', I think I will leave it that way.
Tom R. On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 08:46 -0500, Bonnie King wrote: > Thanks Tom, > > I've tested and I'm able to reproduce the crash on x86_64 with: > > * firefox.x86_64 0:10.0.10-1.el5_8 > * flash-plugin-11.2.202.243-release.i386 or > flash-plugin-11.2.202.243-release.x86_64, > * nspluginwrapper installed > > No segfault with flash-plugin-11.2.202.243-release.x86_64 without > nspluginwrapper, or with previous Firefox (10.0.8). > > On 11/01/2012 11:14 AM, Tom Rosmond wrote: > > Thanks for the advice. Removing 'nspluginwrapper' looks like it fixed > > the problem. The seqfaults seemed to be unique to the Google website, > > and now Google is working. I assume SL installs the proper plugins as > > part of Yum updates, so hopefully I have everything I need. > > > > T. Rosmond > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 08:52 -0500, Bonnie King wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >>> > >>> *** NSPlugin Viewer *** WARNING: unhandled variable 18 (<unknown > >>> variable>) in NPN_GetValue() > >>> > >>> [1] Segmentation fault firefox > >>> [2007]cedar /home/rosmond: > >> > >> I don't know what's causing the segfault (some plugin seems likely), but > >> the NSPlugin Viewer WARNING is seen with nspluginwrapper, which enables > >> you to use the 32-bit Flash plugin on 64-bit systems (necessary before > >> there was a 64-bit plugin). > >> > >> If you use the flash plugin for your architecture and uninstall > >> nspluginwrapper, you won't see the warning. I'm not sure it's related > >> to your crash, since I see the message anywhere nspluginwrapper is > >> installed and it seems to be harmless. > >> > >> In any case, there should be no need for nspluginwrapper if you have the > >> appropriate flash plugin installed. > >> > >>> > >>> ******************************************************** > >>> > >>> I'm not a browser expert, so would appreciate any advice to correct the > >>> problem. I could try to revert to the previous version, but would > >>> prefer not to. > >>> > >>> T. Rosmond > >> > > >
